Grosvenor Prints

[Allegories of the industries of English Counties] Essex.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph with original hand colour. Sheet 190 x 130mm (7½ x 5¼"). Light staining.
From a series of idealised scenes of women and children representing the industry of the four counties. A woman and a child feed a cow. Essex was known for cattle farming in the 1800s, particularly for fattening cattle to supply the growing demand for meat in London, as well as developing dairy.
See [Ref: 55242].
[Ref: 68146] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Allegories of the industries of English Counties] Buckinghamshire. Essex. Hampshire. Worcestershire.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph with original hand colour. Sheet 385 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). Tear entering image top right, some surface soiling. Foxing.
Idealised scenes of women and children representing the industry of the four counties: sequentially tatting, cows, rabbits and porcelain painting. Very rare complete.
[Ref: 55242] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Allegories of the industries of English Counties] Hertfordshire. Sussex. Cornwall. Lancashire.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph with original hand colour. Sheet 385 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). A little wear to edges, some surface soiling. Foxing, repaired tear bottom centre.
Idealised scenes of women and children representing the industry of the four counties: sequentially corn, sheep, fishing and spinning. Very rare complete.
[Ref: 55240] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Allegories of the industries of English Counties] Staffordshire. Yorkshire. Northamptonshire. Oxfordshire.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph with original hand colour. Sheet 385 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). A little wear to edges, some surface soiling. Foxing, two small tears at top.
Idealised scenes of women and children representing the industry of the four counties: sequentially pottery, horses, spinning and glove-making. Very rare complete.
[Ref: 55241] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Allegories of the industries of English Counties] Wiltshire. Gloucestershire. Nottinghamshire. Derbyshire.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph with original hand colour. Sheet 385 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). A little wear to edges, some surface soiling. Foxing
Idealised scenes of women and children representing the industry of the four counties: sequentially pig farming; pin-making, embroidery and hosiary. Very rare complete.
[Ref: 55237] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A Country Amusement, Bull Baiting.
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles No.69 St Paul's Church Yard, London. [n.d., c.1784.]
Engraving, 170 x 260mm. Publication line excised.
The popular amusement of bull baiting in the central part of this satire. The onlookers have the hawkers and pickpockets preying on them.
[Ref: 763] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

[Country amusements] Les Amusements Champetres
Dessiné par Charles Eisen et Gravé par de Longueil
A Paris chés Daumont rue St. Martin, Avec Privilege du Roy
Fine engraving, sheet 170 x 215mm (6¾ x 8½"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at cormers.
Young couples relaxing in the country. Engraving after a design by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Erasmus and La Fontaine.
[Ref: 45080] £360.00

The Country Attorney and his Clients. From the Original Picture painted by Hand Holbein, in the Collection fo Robert Bragg M.D. To Whom this Plate is Dedicated; By his most Obliged humble Servant, J. Boydell. Size of the Picture, 3F:3¾I by 4F:3I in Length. No.8.
Hans Holbein Pinxt. Anty. Walker delint. et Sculpsit.
Published according to Act of Parliament, by J. Boydell, Engraver in Cheapside, London: March 1st. 1764.
Engraving. Plate 430 x 539mm (17 x 21¼"), with wide margins.
An interior with shelves full of bonds and little sacks, piled up and hanging from hooks, all labelled, where an attorney sits at a desk covered with papers, reading a deed held in his left hand, holding out the other to receive a coin from an elderly man, who stands to left, hat in hand, leaning forwards attentively, watched by a young man, while a woman and two other men crowd curiously behing them and young boy acts as a clerk, sitting on the right. BM suggest "after a painting wrongly attributed to Holbein".
Ex Collection Duke of Westminster.
[Ref: 38267] £360.00

[Country ball] Le Bal Champetre.
Dessiné par Charles Eisen et Gravé par de Longueil.
A Paris chés Daumont rue St. Martin, Avec Privilege du Roy.
Fine engraving, sheet 170 x 215mm (6¾ x 8½"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Musical scene after a design by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Erasmus and La Fontaine.
[Ref: 45078] £360.00

Country Christening. Parson:_Wilt thou cause this Child to be taught &c. &c. in the Vulgar Tongue?_Godfather:_I Wooll.
E_, Del.t.
[London, Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket, 1826.]
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 205 x 235mm (8 x 9¼''). Trimmed and tipped into an album sheet.
A scene in a church showing a mother holding her child at the font as the vicar conducts the service.
BM Satire Undescribed.
[Ref: 50727] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Country Clergyman. Le Curè de Campagne.
Drawn by R. Westall, R.A. Engraved by R. Field.
London, Published March 1 1801, by Anth.y Cardon, No 31, Clipstone Street, Fitzroy Square.
Stipple. 410 x 450mm (16 x 17¾"). Edges of wide margins ragged.
A vicar standing at the door of his church receiving the gratitude of his idealised congregation, as a small girl hugs his legs, looking up adoringly.
[Ref: 53438] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Country Club. Eamus quo Ducet Gula.
[After Henry Bunbury.] I.C. 1823.
Rare lithograph. Sheet 295 x 470mm (11½ x 18½"). Trimmed to image, title excised and pasted in middle verso.
A lithographic copy of Bunbury's caricature, originally published 1788. The Latin motto reads 'let us go where greed leads us'.
[Ref: 24488] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Country Club. Eamus quo Ducet Gula.
H. Bunbury Esq.r Delin.t. W. Dickinson Excudit.
London. Published 5 March 1794 by John Jeffryes Ludgate Hill.
Stipple, printed in brown. Sheet 395 x 500mm (15¾ x 19¾"). Trimmed within plate. Repaired tear in title area.
The interior of a country club with the members arriving for a supper. On the wall are the Club rules (''No Jokes in this society but practical ones, or forfeit 3d'') and a world map. The Latin motto reads 'let us go where greed leads us'.
[Ref: 53368] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Country Club.
H Bunbury Esqr Dele. Lambeth.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed within plate, tears in edges.
Caricatures of the members of a club.
BM 1935,0522.8.105, a reversed copy of BM Satires 7452. See Ref: 53368, 24488.
[Ref: 54561] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Country concert] Le Concert Champetre
Dessiné par Charles Eisen et Gravé par de Longueil
A Paris chés Daumont rue St. Martin, Avec Privilege du Roy
Fine engraving, sheet 170 x 215mm (6¾ x 8½"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Musical scene after a design by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Erasmus and La Fontaine.
[Ref: 45079] £420.00

[Country Cottage.]
Mr Cleather WFW.
[n.d. c.1840.]
Pen and ink with crayon. 210 x 300mm (8¼ x 11¾").
A countryside scene: with a cottage to the left with a derelict barn to the right build on top of a bridge over a flowing stream.
[Ref: 24957] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Country Crier Oyes Oyes! This is to give notice. That Atice Grant has lost from out her Sty last night at 25 minutes past 10 O Clock two pigs the one a black un tother Caroty, whoe'er bring un to the said Alice Grant _ Or give inflamation where the stoln or strayed shall have her thanks and the first suckling pig from the Breed of Old Nanny at Lammas day next _ God save the King.
Printed and Published by W. Davison Alnwick. [n.d., c.1815.]
Etching. Sheet 190 x 250mm (7½ x 9¾).
The crier, his mouth wide open, with an angry expression, shakes his bell making announcement in the faces of three shocked locals. He wears a long old-fashioned coat, broad cocked hat, wig and holds a cane. On his left a complacent onlooker holds a pitchfork. A path leads to a farmhouse . William Davison of Alnwick (1780-1858), print publisher and pharmacist, usually referred to as Davison of Alnwick after the Northumberland town where he lived, produced a number of naive popular prints between 1812 and 1817, usually based on other prints.
[Ref: 54526] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Country Evenings. The returne from the Tythe Feast. There are only Three in the Village that are worth a __. / ''We'll n'er go home till morning. / Till day light doth appear.''
H.y Alken Del't. R.G. Reeve Sculp.t.
Published by Tho's McLean, 26 Haymarket, 1929.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 280 x 190mm (11 x 7½"). Trimmed within plate.
Three drunken revellers walking through a wood by lamplight,
[Ref: 42011] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Country Fair Pl. 1.
Drawn & Etch'd by W. H. Pyne.
Pub.d July 1804 by Pyne & Nattes.
Hand coloured aquatint with etching. 230 x 295mm (9 x 11½"), with very large margins.
A busy composition featuring several popular entertainers. To the left is a stage, with a sign inscribed, 'The Grand Pantomine', upon which is a masked clown and dancing women. A crowd has gathered to watch below and to the side, with stalls and sellers in front. More stalls can be seen in the distance. From Pyne's ‘Microcosm: or, a picturesque delineation of the arts, agriculture, manufacturers, &c. of Great Britain'. William Henry Pyne (1769-1843), the son of a London weaver who became an artist and writer, was commissioned to write and illustrate a book by the publisher, William Miller of Albermarle Street, London. The illustrations are particularly notable as they portray British life on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
[Ref: 36756] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Country Fair Pl. 1.
Drawn & Etch'd by W. H. Pyne.
Pub.d July 1804 by Pyne & Nattes.
Aquatint with etching, printed in sepia. 230 x 295mm (9 x 11½"), with very large margins.
A busy composition featuring several popular entertainers. To the left is a stage, with a sign inscribed, 'The Grand Pantomine', upon which is a masked clown and dancing women. A crowd has gathered to watch below and to the side, with stalls and sellers in front. More stalls can be seen in the distance. From Pyne's ‘Microcosm: or, a picturesque delineation of the arts, agriculture, manufacturers, &c. of Great Britain'. William Henry Pyne (1769-1843), the son of a London weaver who became an artist and writer, was commissioned to write and illustrate a book by the publisher, William Miller of Albermarle Street, London. The illustrations are particularly notable as they portray British life on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
[Ref: 62459] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Sports of a Country Fair. Part the First. Teggs Caricatures No 38.
[Thomas Rowlandson.]
Pub.d October 5th 1810 by Thos Tegg No 111 Cheapside. Price One Shilling Coloured.
Very finely coloured etching, early state. 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"). Laid on album paper with some cockling of paper.
The horse breaks free from a cart carrying people around the fair, tipping them onto the ground. From a set of plates of similar disasters. Showmen including tight rope walkers in background. Pasted on the back are two Bunbury caricatures of coach drivers.
BM Satires 11629.
[Ref: 59288] £350.00

Sports of a Country Fair. Teggs Caricatures No 40.
[Thomas Rowlandson.]
Pub.d October 5th 1810 by Thos Tegg No 111 Cheapside. Price One Shilling Coloured.
Coloured etching, early state with very fine colour. 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Spectators flee from the upper storey of a burning theatre, landing in a heap at the bottom of some stairs. From a set of plates of similar disasters. Circus including tight rope walker in background.
BM Satires 11629. See Ref: 59288
[Ref: 59290] £350.00

Sports of a Country Fair. Part the Third. Teggs Caricatures No 41.
[Thomas Rowlandson.]
Pub.d October 5th 1810 by Thos Tegg No 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching. 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"). Tear reaching image lower left, creasing.
Chaos in the interior of a large theatrical tent as a tiger bursts through the flimsy canvas wall. From a set of four plates of similar disasters.
BM Satires 11631
[Ref: 51688] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Copy of a Letter from a Country Gentleman to his absent Friend. July 5, 1814.
Letterpress. Sheet: 400 x 250mm (15¾ x 9¾''). Damage, staining and folds.
A comic poem in the form of a letter to a friend in which the author describes the meeting of a Justice of the Peace, a doctor and a lawyer who discuss the peace called with France and Bonaparte. The group also argue about how celebrate the Peace without costing themselves too dearly and worry about the letting off of fireworks and squibs. Address in manuscript in back: 'To Myears Esq.r Fanhane Hall Ware Herts'. In ink under what women loath & all men curse describing gout! "When we all know tis something worse"
[Ref: 48223] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Country Girl at Home. Blooming Maiden, Nature's Pride...
Painted by G. Morland. E.M. Diemar, Excud.t. Engraved by M.C. Prestel.
Published by T. Palser, Surry Side of Westminster Bridge.
Rare hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 420 x 325mm (16½ x 12¾''). Paper tone, staining & trimmed.
A rural scene showing a young woman standing next to a farmer outside a country house.
[Ref: 51088] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Country Girl and Soldier.]
Mr. Bunbury del. Js. Bretherton f. [in ink].
[Publish'd 23d. Jany. 1783.]
Etching with added hand-colour. Plate 330 x 299mm. 13 x 11¾". Uncut. Time staining inside plate.
A country girl sitting outside a thatched cottage, holding a jug in one hand and offering a glass to a solider with the other. The soldier is leaning on his gun, wearing a cocked hate and looking curiously at her.
[Ref: 19823] £320.00

The Country Girl Carrying a Present to the Lord of the Manor meets with an unwelcome Reception. [&] The Country Girl Persued by the Mastiffs rescued by the Courage of her Brother.
Painted by R.M. Paye. Engraved by J.no Young, Engraver in Mezzotinto to His Royal Huighness the Prince of Wales.
London, Published Jan.y 1st 1792 by J.no Young, Engraver to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Cockspur St.t.
Pair of very fine & rare mezzotints with large margins. Ea. 630 x 430mm (24¾ x 17").
The Country Girl has dogs set on her as a joke and is rescued by her brother with a club.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection.
[Ref: 28437] £850.00 view all images for this item

The Country Housewife and Lady's Director, in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm. Containing Instructions for managing the Brew-House, and Malt-Liquors in the Cellar; the making of wines of all sorts. Directions for the Dairy, in the Improvement of Butter and Cheese upon the worst of Soils... By R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F.R.S. The Second Edition.
London: Printed for Woodman, and Lyon, In Russel-Street, Covent Garden. M.DCC.XXVII [1727]. (Price 2s. 6.d.)
8vo, original full calf gilt; pp. xii + 187; with engraved frontispiece by John Sturt. Hinges strained, old ink mss. marginalia, some staining.
A scarce cookery book, with instructions on pickling, cheese and wine making and cooking game, divided into months. As the post of Professor of Botany at Cambridge was unpaid, Richard Bradley (1688-1732) needed the income from publishing to survive. 4 pages of recipes in front in ink (maybe the missing pages) Minus pages 181-4.
[Ref: 56719] £350.00 view all images for this item

A Country Inn Yard at the Time of an Election.
Invented & Painted by W.m Hogarth.
[London: Robert Sayer, 1768.]
Engraving with very large margins; 175 x 280mm (7 x 11").
A coach getting ready to leave an inn yard, an election riot in the background. Soon after the death of William Hogarth in 1764, his widow Jane gave the London publisher Robert Sayer permission to publish a collection of her husband's work. Although engraved in a smaller format, Sayer's versions retain all the detail of the original plates.
[Ref: 31473] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

A Country Life [parallel text in French] Here love and wine their matchless Charms unite. / How Sweetly tempting lures the luscious Grape [...]
[Unsigned, c.1770]
Rare mezzotint; platemark 325 x 225mm (12¾ x 8¾"). Small margins
Romantic countryside scene.
[Ref: 47648] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Country Maid and her Milk Pail. The Moral / When we dwell much on distant and chemerical advantages; we neglect our present business and are exposed to real misfortunes.
[Anon., c.1810]
Engraving with letterpress, sheet 200 x 130mm (8 x 5").
Moral tale of a milkmaid who, in thinking too much about the future wealth she stands to accrue from the sale of her milk rather than her present task, absent-mindedly spills the pail of milk.
[Ref: 37944] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Le Repas de Campagne. Prandium Agreste. Gravé d'aprés le Tableau original peint par Watteau haut de 2 pieds sur 1 pied 6 pouces de large.
A. Watteau pinxit. Deplace sculp.
a Paris chez la Veuve de F. Chereau, graveur du Roy ruë St Jacques aux deux pilliers d'Or Avec privilege du Roy [nd., c.1730].
Etching with some engraving. 455 x 350mm (18 x 13¾"), with large margins. Uncut. Some time staining. A little chipping to edges.
A family have a meal outside a thatched cottage.
[Ref: 57866] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Rural pleasures] Les Plaisirs Champetres.
Inventé et dessiné par M. Charles Eisen et gravé par M. De Longueil.
A Paris chés Daumont rue St. Martin, Avec Privilege du Roy.
Fine engraving, sheet 170 x 215mm (6¾ x 8½"). Trimmed to platemark.
A suggestive rural idyll after a design by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Erasmus and La Fontaine.
[Ref: 46484] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[A Country Race Course with Horses Racing.]
[W. Mason Esq. delin.t. Aquatinta by F.Jukes. Engrav'd by J.Jenkins.]
Pub.h.d June 20th [no year] W.m Mason Esq.r. [c.1786.]
Aquatint with engraving, proof before title, scratched publication line. Sheet 465 x 650mm (14¼ x 17¾"). Trimmed within plate, small tears repaired. Some creasing in sky.
A chaotic scene at a racecourse, Newmarket Heath or probably York as the artist, William Mason (1724 -97), was Canon Residentiary of York. The horses pass the finish post, through spectators who wander close to the course. On the left is a high phaeton carriage, in the right foreground a woman pie-seller falls to the ground, spilling her wares. A pair to ''A Country Race Course with Horses Preparing to Start''. The BM's example was published by James Phillips in 1786.
BM Satires 8256. Not in Siltzer.
[Ref: 54700] £690.00

The Country Singing Clerk on a Sunday.
Pubd. Accorg. to Act Octr 21. 1773 by MDarly Strand.
Etching, 170 x 120mm. 6¾ x 4¾".
A man walking along a road holding a very long stick with a face carved at the top, and holding his hat. From 'Characters, Macaronies & Caricatures, by MDarly', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.6' upper left and '20' upper right.
BM Satires: 4689.
[Ref: 14325] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Le Gouter Champêtre.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving, pt 18th century watermark. Sheet 235 x 320mm (9¼ x 12½. Trimmed within plate, close to title at bottom.
Two well-dressed couples share a meal on a rowing boat decorated with a bower of branches. Behind is another boat with three musicians.
[Ref: 57817] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Country Sport.
Printed and Published by W. Davison Alnwick. [n.d., c.1815.]
Etching. 170 x 235mm (6¾ x 9½"), with large margins.
Man and boy chasing a pig in vicinity of an alehouse. Another man lays sprawled on the floor, presmably having failed in an attempt to do likewise. Etching published by William Davison, publisher of popular prints and satires, and pharmacist, usually referred to as Davison of Alnwick after the Northumberland town where he lived. In the period between 1812 and 1817, Davison produced a number of caricatures often based on better known prints.
[Ref: 43836] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

The Sharp Reply. "Which is the way to Epsom, Jack?" "How did you know my Name, was Jack"? "I guessed it." "Then guess your way to Epsom."
Painted by J. Pollard. H. Heath Junr.
Dean & Co. Threadneedle St. London. [n.d., c.1845.]
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 285 x 380mm. 11¼ x 15". Two marginal tears.
Scene on a country road recording a terse exchange between a young squire on his horse with a shepherd-boy, sheep to right. Very fine colour published for the fashionable pastime of compiling scrap albums. After James Pollard (1792 - 1867).
[Ref: 11629] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Scene in a Country Town at the Time of a Race.
Drawn by W. Mason Esq.r. Engrav'd by V Green.
Publish'd March 27th 1789 by F. Brydon, Printseller & Framemaker, opposite Northumberland House, Charing Cross, London.
A very large & rare etching, with hand colour. Sheet 445 x 600mm (17½ x 23¾"). Trimmed to plate; worm holes filled, mainly in title area.
A chaotic scene in a High Street, probably York as the artist William Mason was Canon Residentiary of York and Rector of Aston. A stagecoach and personal carriages crash into each other, much to the amusement of spectators looking from the windows of the Red Lion coaching inn. Adding to the noise are coach passengers beating a drum and blowing a trumpet, a fiddler and a ballad singer. Other figures include a gipsy woman sitting on the pavement, a Jewish pedlar clutching his box on the roof of the stagecoach and a man riding a racehorse through the melée. The BM's example is trimmed to the image, but has a 1908 report that gives the title and describes an earlier state, ''Publish'd July 26th 1783 by V. Green, N°29 Newman Street, Oxford Street & Sold by F Brydon, Printseller, N° 7, opposite Northumberland House, Charing Cross, London''. See Ref: 31344 for Frank Paton's Christmas Card design.
BM Satires 8243; Siltzer p.360; Not in Whitman list of Green's non-mezzotints.
[Ref: 54616] £950.00

A Country Wedding. ''O Pan, Tegean God_be here Propitious'' Virgil, Georgic, 1st. verse. 17.
A. Parson, Del.t.
[London, Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket, 1826.]
Hand-coloured etching, watermark 'J. Whatman 1825'. Sheet: 205 x 235mm (8 x 9¼''). Trimmed and tipped into an album sheet.
A scene showing a newly married couple walking out of a country church, followed by the rest of the congregation.
BM Satire Undescribed.
[Ref: 50726] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Habit of a Country Woman in Russia in 1764. Paysanne. 72.
[Thomas Jefferys, n.d., c.1772.]
Hand coloured engraving, 18th century watermark. Plate 230 x 200mm (9 x 8"). Large margins. Staining in the left and upper margin.
Portrait of a Russian country woman, she is standing in profile and touching her cloak with her left hand. Plate 72 from 'Collection of the dresses of different nations, antient [sic] and modern. Particularly old English dresses; after the designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar and others, with an account of the authorities from which the figures are taken, and some short historical remarks on the subject. To which are added the habits of the principal characters on the English stage', published by Thomas Jefferys between 1757 - 1772.
[Ref: 62885] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Habit of a Country Woman of Ingria in 1764. Femme d'Ingrie. 187.
[Thomas Jefferys, n.d., c.1772.]
Hand coloured engraving, J. Whatman watermark. Plate 240 x 200mm (9½ x 8"). Large margins.
A full-length portrait of a country woman from Ingria in Russia stepping towards the viewer, her right hand on her hip. She is wearing a hat, earrings, a three-quarter length coat over a longer dress, and shoes with ankle straps. Plate 187 from 'Collection of the dresses of different nations, antient [sic] and modern. Particularly old English dresses; after the designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar and others, with an account of the authorities from which the figures are taken, and some short historical remarks on the subject. To which are added the habits of the principal characters on the English stage', published by Thomas Jefferys between 1757 - 1772.
[Ref: 62858] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Countryman and Money Scrivener.
Finucane delin.t
[n.d., c.1800.]
Hand-coloured engraving. Sheet: 245 x 195mm (9¾ x 7¾"). Trimmed within plate. Some paper loss in the bottom left corner and a crease in the top right corner.
A comic scene in which a countryman accidentally walks into a lawyers office mistaking it for a shop and proceeds to insult the lawyer.
[Ref: 44692] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Countryman in London.
Printed and Published by W. Davison Alnwick. [n.d. c.1812.]
Etching. 185 x 260mm (7¼ x 10¼")
A satire on the bewilderment of a rustic in the metropolis. A countryman with a walking stick standing in alarm before a showman, who points upwards to a sign that reads "Royal Tiger", and dishes a bill inscribed "Milse's wild beasts".
City of London Collage: p5384962. BM Satires: undescribed.
[Ref: 29946] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Insurance certificate] County Fire Office. Insituted at Midsummer, 1807. Policy No. [33365]
[Policy 2nd September 1815.]
Insurance certificate, wood-engraving and letterpress, filled in with ink mss. Watermark J. Whatman 1814, Sheet 475 x 330mm (18¾ x 13"), with tax blind stamp Folds.
An insurance policy for a farmhouse, barns, stables and hay stacks of a farm in Tuxford, Nottinghamshire.
[Ref: 61359] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[County Hall and Westminster Bridge.]
A Watson Turnbull [pencil signature].
[n.d. c.1920s.]
Etching on watermarked laid paper, 175 x 250mm. 7 x 9¾".
Tugboats and other shipping on the River Thames in foreground. Andrew Watson Turnbull (British, b.1874) was a painter, etcher and stained glass artist who exhibited at the R.A. and elsewhere.
[Ref: 22144] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Coup de Pommade. Le Jour de la fête du Village.
H.F. [in image.]
A Paris chez Passet, rue S.t. Jaques N.o.64.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 240 x 310mm (9½ x 12"). Trimmed within plate.
An interior scene in which a French peasant sits before a fire while his wife dresses his hair in preparation for the Village Fete. Plate 6 from a series titled 'Le Démocrite du Siecle, N.o.6'.
[Ref: 36165] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Le coup de Vent Ou le désagrément des Etoffes légères.
A Paris chez Jean, Rue St. Jean de Beauvais, no. 10 [c.1820]
Etching with early hand-colouring, sheet 185 x 280mm (7¼ x 11"). Trimmed inside platemark. Slight foxing.
'The gust of wind, or the nuisance caused by light fabrics'. Alarm is caused amongst a young woman's companions as her dress flies up.
[Ref: 40224] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Matinée du 18 Brumaire.
Champion del. Lithog. de Motte.
[n.d. c.1826.]
Lithograph. Printed area 320 x 420mm (12½ x 16½"), with large margins. Foxing.
Napoleon Bonaparte taking command of the local troops of Paris on the morning of the coup of 9th November 1799. Published in A.V. Arnault's 'Vie politique et militaire de Napoléon', Paris, 1822-1826.
[Ref: 55882] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Coupeurs de Glace.
[n.d. c.1821.]
Fine lithograph, paper watermarked. Image area 166 x 241mm. 6½ x 9½". Trimmed to image and around title area.
Ice cutters putting blocks onto a wooden carriage pulled by a horse. From an uncoloured copy of "Moeurs et costumes des Russes représentés en 50 planches coloriées exécutées en lithographie -- par A. C. Houbigant".
[Ref: 26564] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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